The basic concept of this technique is that mitral regurgitation can be corrected simply by suturing together the edges of the mitral leaflets just at the site where regurgitation occurs. In particular the free edge of the diseased leaflet is anchored to the corresponding edge of the opposing leaflet exactly where the regurgitant jet is located. When the jet of regurgitation is in the central p...

Experimental coronary occlusions were carried out in 12 closed-chest dogs to investigate the functional anatomic characteristics of the mitral valve complex during acute myocardial ischemia. Two-dimensional echocardiography was used to assess left ventricular function, the mitral valve complex, and left atrial size. Presence of mitral regurgitation was assessed by left ventricular contrast echo...

AIM While the incidence of rheumatic heart disease has declined dramatically over the last half-century, the number of valve surgeries has not changed. This study was undertaken to define the most common type of valvular heart disease requiring surgery today, and determine in-hospital surgical mortality and length-of-stay (LOS) for isolated aortic or mitral valve surgery in a United States tert...

A 67-year-old female patient was referred to our transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) laboratory for the evaluation of the severity of valve pathologies. Two-dimensional (2-D) transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) revealed rheumatic mitral valve with moderate mitral regurgitation (MR), moderate mitral stenosis (MS), and severe tricuspid regurgitation (TR). In 2-D TEE, we also identified rheuma...

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We report the successful treatment of a 77-year-old man after a difficult diagnosis of mitral valve regurgitation resulting from complete rupture of the anterior papillary muscle. The patient with cardiogenic shock was an emergency admission. An electrocardiogram showed acute lateral wall myocardial infarction. He had complications of leukocytosis and a high-grade fever. Transesophageal echocar...

Percutaneous edge-to-edge mitral valve repair (PMVR) is widely used for selected, high-risk patients with severe mitral valve regurgitation (MR). This report describes a case of 81-year-old woman presenting with severe and highly symptomatic mitral valve regurgitation (MR) caused by a flail of the posterior mitral valve leaflet (PML). PMVR turned out to be challenging in this patient because of...

We present a case of successful repair of the mitral valve for active infective endocarditis. Mitral valve repair was performed through debridement of vegetation and abscess, resection and repair of the posterior mitral leaflet and posterior repair with autologous pericardium. Postoperative period was uneventfully, with no evidence of recurrent infection, and echocardiogram showed mitral valve ...

Preservation of the subvalvular apparatus has the merits of postoperative outcomes during mitral valve replacement for mitral regurgitation. We performed mitral valve replacement with anterior and posterior leaflet chordal preservation in a 65-year-old woman. On the 2nd postoperative day, routine postoperative trans-thoracic echocardiography showed an unknown aortic subvalvular mobile mass. We ...

isolated mitral valve surgery Selecting patients with mitral regurgitation and left ventricular dysfunction for